Jacqueline Broad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her main area of research is early modern women's philosophy. She is the author of The Philosophy of Mary Astell (OUP, 2015) and Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century (CUP, 2002), and co-author with Karen Green of A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (CUP, 2009). She recently published a modern edition of Mary Astell's Christian Religion, as Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (CRRS and Iter, 2013)

Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She researches the relationship between metaphysics and the life sciences in the early modern period, early modern women philosophers, and the philosophy of education. She is the editor of Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2012). Her articles on Astell, Conway, Descartes, Du Chatelet, Cavendish, Hobbes, Haller, Wolff, and Malebranche have been published in Philosophy Compass, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, and volumes by Oxford, Springer, Routledge, Acumen, Kluwer, Cambridge, and the Pennsylvania State University Press.

Deborah Boyle, College of Charleston
Jacqueline Broad, Monash University, Melbourne
Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania
Karen Green, University of Melbourne
Ruth Hagengruber, Paderborn University, Germany
Lena Halldenius, Lund University, Sweden
Sarah Hutton, University of York
Marcy P. Lascano, California State University
Martina Reuter, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Eric Schliesser, University of Amsterdam & University
Lisa Shapiro, University in British Columbia, Canada
Alice Sowaal, San Francisco State University
Emily Thomas, University of Durham

"What emerges from this collection of papers is a sense of the unique contributions of lesser-known figures in this period to the development of modern notions of freedom and autonomy. But more than this, I would suggest what also emerges is the appreciation a reader gains for the developing feminist consciousness in this period and the importance of this emerging framework for thinking about morality and freedom in the context of women's oppression and liberation. This is an excellent collection and highly recommended for early modern and feminist scholars alike." -- Patricia Sheridan, Locke Studies